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God Before everything we can see, feel, hear, smell, taste, and control (the natural creation) existed, there was God (and His helpers/messengers), who had a desire to have a family, ergo the reason and purpose for the natural creation (that out of it He might draw the members of the family He wanted from the stock of humans). Even though it is apparent that this creation contains such monumentally complex construction on such a massive and minute scale, God has always remained hidden and separated from the creation as such (not able to be found). No one ever sees God, yet it appears that He must be. Perhaps then the thing that pleases God about a human—since He has deliberately chosen to be and remain hidden—is that they look for Him in a true and thorough way. That is, not being satisfied with the lies that abound about where to find Him because it's apparent they are lying and He is nowhere to be found where the liars claim He is. Humans Choice Covenant Serpent Curse Animal nature This is the nature that all the humans since have inherited—the curse of Adam—marked by this very basic characteristic of distrust, fear and hiding. God said in effect to the humans, "Okay, since you trusted the animal's (the serpent who was the most crafty of all the animals') lies instead of my truth, since you chose the animal instead of choosing Me, you are now inheriting the consequence of the choice you made for him over Me. Now you are bound to the animal, made one with your new master by sharing the same nature as that which the animals are bound to. You are not now the same as you were before when you were under my covenant, when you could be and remain sons who can come close to their Father by observing the terms of my covenant." This new condition that the humans were all of a sudden under is marked by 3 important events as recorded in Genesis 3:21-24, symbols of what the humans became, strategically placed in the text just after the curses. The first is that God made animal skins for them and "put them" on the humans, which represents their being bound to the animal and therefore appearing as one according to the way God now sees them by the act of having the same kind of skin put onto them by Him. Before the human looked to God like His son; now the human looked like an animal (symbolized by him now wearing the skin of an animal on him as his new clothes), which is what he became instead of a son in the family of God. The second is that the humans were kicked out of God's presence; they couldn't get near Him now because they were not sons but animals by nature who had been cursed and separated from Him. The third is that the tree of life, from which before they were free to eat (they could live as God originally intended them to live and not die), was now made unavailable to them. An angel with a flaming sword was stationed in front of the tree of life, which effectively means that the humans couldn't get at it—no more access by their own choice or power to the life that God intended them to have. No way to choose to have life as God intended them to have it. Sinful nature The truth about the condition of the humans must address what they know is true inside them, what drives them so forcefully e.g., fear, survivalism, egoism, mental and emotional issues. What people actually love and run after—food, money, things, acceptance, validation, power, safety, security, etc.—all the different shades of survival—are not abstract things which have nothing to do with the disease that's in them. They are what addresses the cravings to have those things fulfilled and satisfied in them. Those who claim to know the way to God talk a lot about how everyone's a sinner (because they read some words in a book and presumed to claim ownership of those words). But that term can only be inapplicable conceptual theory because it means nothing to the humans who can't identify with that, first because the ones who say it don't know what it actually means, but eventually define it as "what the bad people do," which is lame. And the ones who hear it think they're inherently good, not bad, so they'll never be able to agree with the sentiment that they're bad, because they instinctively think they're inherently good in their heart (a condition of assuring survival), no matter what they say with their mouth. Those who claim to be "sinners saved by grace" can't actually mean it because they don't know what their condition is, and they don't think they're bad but good, because of the nature that's in them which dictates to them that they must feel this way about themselves as per how it works. They think it means something like all people are bad, but you can become good by being like us, by joining our club and surrounding yourself with others who will reinforce that lie for you so you can believe it easier. In reality what drives the humans to actually make them bad according to God—unclean because of the curse—makes them think they're naturally good (especially those who say all men are sinners, because they mean those who don't believe their myths, and are therefore a threat to them and their community—simple survivalist behavior). They're just playing a PR game for those who would agree with them, to get something from them—the agreement, support, validation and acceptance that they crave. When someone agrees with you, they give you something that is very powerful which satisfies a craving deep inside the nature of the humans (egoism), to find that kind of agreement. It's like an intangible yet very valuable kind of currency. Preserved words Whatever happened in the first century—reflected within the subject matter comprising the New Testament part of the Bible, personal letters written from those who experienced it to others also experiencing the same phenomenon—disappeared from the earth and went into hiding, so to speak. Another way to put it is that it went into a planned and predicted captivity so that it left at least semi-permanently. In other words, the Christian claim that what happened then is still going on is a farce, reflected even in their own Bibles that say it was supposed to leave. What rose up to claim it as its inspiration—that which took it into captivity (Christianity)—is not in any way affiliated with what was happening in the first century, except that the words sound the same because it swallowed them up. It is only the human version of what was happening that went into hiding when the humans took it over and made it theirs, as they always do with everything—own, possess, control & exploit. The verses that explain all this are contained within this web site. They are part of a complicated whole which cannot be separated into factoids, because everything makes sense by existing as a part of everything else, and not just a bunch of facts that can be comprehended by the humans. In other words, the real information that is coded into the words isn't for the humans so it isn't able to be grasped by them either, so all they can do is make up their systems that they can comprehend out of the words that have been preserved. We are not affiliated with any group or institution—nor do we intend to be or start our own—which claims to know the way to God. That way is secret, hidden from the humans at large, just like the Father is and has always been. It is how He kept His Son's true identity hidden from the humans, only revealing it to a few people of His own choosing, the same way He chose the particular group descended from Abraham to be His people. Although the words sound the same, the secret sons of the hidden Father read the preserved words differently than do the humans. After the christian model, the humans form religious institutions and claim exclusive ownership of what they think the words say, along with claiming to know and control the way to the hidden Father whom they assume isn't hidden because then they wouldn't be able to control Him like they need to be able to. However, the words themselves say that the only true God cannot be possessed, owned, controlled or contained within any of their little human systems—as if God would want to be the head of some religious corporation run by so many self-proclaimed leaders carving out positions for themselves by climbing up their corporate religious ladders like so many managers of a grocery store chain. The true picture of the living God in the preserved words is of a being who chooses to be and remain hidden, secret and mysterious; not able to just become found out and then owned by ignorant and presumptuous humans. The way to God is not found in man's institutions because man doesn't know the way to the living God, who makes Himself secret and hidden on purpose so He won't be found by them. The way to God isn't found amongst the humans anywhere in their visible world because that path is hidden, as the identity of the Son himself was hidden while he existed as a human. His true identity as Israel's Messiah was revealed to no one except a few questionable witnesses, which is how the Father kept him a secret from the humans at large, not validated by them or for their purpose by being able to be controlled by them. The mystery is that he wasn't natural Israel's Messiah at all because that was just a group of dumb ignorant animals like all the others, able to be known to and by each other. Israel as the collection of humans was only ever a metaphor of what was and still is completely a secret thing that the humans aren't privy to. What happened in the first century was another glimpse at what couldn't be known by dumb animals. The human coup which made the world a desolation of darkness happened a little later, when the mechanism of the new covenant—God by His unseen life (referred to as the spirit) living in the hearts of some of the humans who were chosen to become sons to Him—left the earth and made it desolate of that good thing which had been promised by the prophets and lasted a little while in the first century before it went away into hiding. That desolation of darkness was promised by the prophets and was known by those who wrote the letters that comprise the NT. Not inerrant or infallible regarding the facts of the natural creation as the christians claim. Inspired in the sense that it contains information that the Father directed humans to record and preserve for the sake of His true sons. Within these words are a secret truth that keeps getting reaffirmed and reinforced by the Teacher who lives inside them—hidden to the rest of the humans—about the plan and purpose of God, disclosed only to them when they receive the key that unlocks that secret to them—eyes to see, ears to hear and a mind that can understand what the others cannot. First, they are sons of God; second, that the nature that rules all of the humans, which isn't known or understood by them, is what keeps the sons away from their Father, so they must come away from that nature, be separated from it, become unyoked from it so they can be led by another Master, and taught by another Teacher who wants to transform them from wild animal to son of God, as per the intention of God that they become as such. Faith of Noah Noah and Abraham were told that something would happen that seemed impossible, and it wasn't just to believe that it was true, but it was to act on the belief that it was true, to take the action which said more loudly than any words that they believed. They were both asked by God to come away from the humans around them because He had a special purpose for them which didn't involve the others. That was a sign and copy from God that even though the natural creation seems to go on forever it doesn't, and out of it He is planning to save His own family of sons whom He has chosen to save. Noah and his own family specifically represents God's own family of sons, a specific and exact number (able to be counted); while the animals represent the others who will be saved for other reasons e.g., because they helped the sons, were generous to them, accepted them as sons of God. Tower of Babel Abraham Joseph Israel Moses The irony God loves to employ with the humans is that when this prophet was raised up from out of the Israelites he was not like they expected or wanted, or were willing to accept. He was the One Israel had been waiting for since Moses said this, but because he didn't look like they wanted/needed him to be (what they were willing to accept), they rejected him. This is the way that God kept him hidden and secret from the humans who became arrogant and ungrateful about their position of being God's chosen people. Because he truly was the prophet who listened to every word that came out of the mouth of God (who as the unseen spirit lived inside his body), God vindicated what he said by raising him up out of the grave after his human body had been killed (after they thought they had gotten rid of their problem). When he went to become One with the Father he was able to, having the form of God, be for his brothers as the Father had been for him i.e., live in their body to teach them how to be good sons for the Father. Going back to what Moses said about him, "Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from among his people," this could be fulfilled because he and the Father could live in the bodies of the first century sons of God as the Teacher (the unseen spirit), teaching them a way that wasn't known amongst the humans because it was hidden and secret. The unseen life of the Father and the Son was alive within them, called the living word, and it could teach them from the inside, as Moses predicted. This was the true kingdom of God, as opposed to what the humans assumed the kingdom would be like. Land Old Covenant The old was a copy of the new, the better thing which was coming but had not yet come until the one who could implement it came. The old covenant was purposely flawed and lacking, because it was only meant to be a substitute and copy of the better covenant, which wasn't able to be given until a certain point in time had come. The way it was flawed was in its nature, which was all about the natural—rituals and things done in the natural body by which one said they served God. Even though these things pointed at something more important—the life one could live in his heart with regards to how he felt about God—they were nevertheless naturally derived and based on the visible and observable. It was too easy for one to practice the law and yet totally miss the point that God wanted the law to accomplish for Himself—to make one devoted to Him not just on the outside but way down deep in the secret places where one also lived—what one secretly and thoroughly loved, which was marked by what one runs after to secure for himself. Both the new and old covenants are about the choice given to those who were chosen by God to be under the respective covenants, and are based on the original, or the oldest covenant between God and Adam. The choice Adam had was represented by the existence of the serpent, which is always present and exists as the adversary and deceiver of God's potential sons (those who do choose Him). Judges/Kings Jesus Jesus being without sin Jesus versus animal They don't inherit that nature fully though until they pass over from child to adult. When they are children they don't need to have the nature fully developed within them because they have parents to provide them what they need. When they pass over and become the ones who provide for their own children, then they need this instinctual nature of survival intact within them. This passing over from child to adult is the transformation process that happens in human animals, which ties/binds them to everything else in this natural, temporary creation. It did not happen inside Jesus because he was the Son of God, not the son of another human. He was not a god himself, but the Son of the only God, who kept him separated from the animal nature that infects everything else in the natural creation. He was born a new and different creature in the womb of Mary the 12 year old virgin girl. He existed before that time only in the mind of God in an anticipatorial capacity. If he existed as a god before he was born then everything he fulfilled, represented and was according to the only living God wouldn't matter and nothing would make sense. Jesus the Lamb of God Being led by the animal nature is to be an animal that is ruled by that nature to instinctually do what it urges, craves, leads one to do by that thing inside the carrier. That is what happened to the humans after the curse was put into effect. It is what never happened to Jesus. He was kept separated from it by the Father until he learned "to choose the right and reject the wrong," according to Isaiah 7. Then when he was allowed to choose he chose the way of the Father instead of the way of the animal (serpent, satan, as per the temptation record). Because he was separated from that unclean animal nature which is designed to keep the animals away from the Father, he was able to be brought near to the Father because he was clean, unpolluted by what pollutes the humans. This is the condition that allows him to assume the title of the spotless Lamb of God, the Lamb without blemish. Not being led by the nature that the humans are bound to the earth by is what it means that Jesus was without sin. Not necessarily that he didn't "do" sinful things, but that he had the choice to be always near the Father by remaining clean; that is, not led by the thing the humans are led by, or he could have chosen the way of the animal, like Adam did, by listening to it and trusting that it could give him what was better. In essence Jesus chose not to be a human but instead a Son of God, what Adam failed to do. Jesus the Messiah of Israel Devil/Satan Temptation record Son of David New Covenant Kingdom of God/Heaven The Kingdom of God is another variation on the Garden of Eden which God enclosed Adam in. In that walled off Garden, God provided everything for Adam. Adam was given the identity as the son of God, subject to the King his father. For the new sons of God, God has come now to live inside of them in the form of Jesus, the perfect son making sure the Garden is tended and the Seed of True Life grows to spiritual maturity bringing for sons who are the Holy and acceptable Fruit of God, sweetness for Him. For the True sons the Kingdom of God, God Himself, The Inheritance is now hidden within them. The eternal, True Kingdom of God with God as the True King surrounded by all His obedient subject sons is outside of the reach and perception of man and his lies. It is a secret Kingdom and there is no Canaanite or enemy allowed to destroy or pervert what is lasting and precious. The subject sons of the New Kingdom are chosen and born of God Himself. The New Kingdom of God is about God and His family, about those who know Him and love Him and who have given their lives to be there with God in His Spirit and Truth. Sons of God Love Death Greek & Roman gods > Christian gods Disciples The process of righteous correction or rebirth and growth in the new way takes a man born of Adam from his natural animal state of being unclean, separated and foreign to God (dead and in darkness) to a state where he is an actual son of God (alive and in the Light) who will eventually completely share God's very eternal nature (His Spirit Body/DNA) as a Son of the Living God. True disciples are those who submit themselves to the process of learning how to follow and conform to, be disciplined by, the unseen reflection as opposed to the animal/flesh image that is simply being led by instinct into self-love and in the end, despite all natural man's "goodness", without the change of heritage or birth that signals discipleship (being led God's Way), death. That is suffering and death to the animal self of man, as opposed to the path that the animal/flesh follows which avoids all pain and suffering and lives to feed itself. That natural, easy path of fear, is simply being led by instinct (the nature of the animal) into self preservation and false comfort, and in the end, despite all natural man's "goodness" and effort of the animal to save himself by his riches and self love, without the change of heritage or birth that signals True discipleship (being led God's Way), death is always, the end of Adam's road. Christianity = idol worshipThe humans make their gods into whatever they want them to be for their purposes, just as the humans have always done with their carved images they assumed to be their gods. The modern gods of the humans today, because of their pseudo-intellectual growth as compared to their idol worshipping ancestors, are not as much literal figurines, but exist more in the realm of ideas and concepts they create and can control via their constructs of systems and institutions, which themselves become sacrosanct to them like the carved idols of long ago. Egypt Choice & belief Sheep & Goats Both groups, the sheep and the goats are cursed. The goats are the sons of Adam cursed by death and God simply uses them to their natural end to expedite the purpose of His will with the righteous who are also cursed, but they are cursed by Life and having to bear the burden of the Father for His Body (think of all the righteous including the prophets who choosing was a sure death sentence). One is for the purpose of Life (the lambs offered) and one for the purpose of death (the goats given to Adam). The leader/kings of Israel must have known that some men are chosen for destruction like those mentioned. How much more so, seeing Jesus hanged liked Ahithopel, Absalom and Haman, would they have grouped him in with those who were cursed for destruction and used by God for the glory of the righteous (falsely thinking that was themselves). What they failed to perceive was the "curse" of the righteous life (dying so others could live, bearing the burden of Real Life and the purpose of God in the fact that the self/animal must die so the Priests/sons can eat and live) like the life of Moses and of course Jesus. They were unable to see God, to see clearly enough to be able to judge the sheep from the goats and yet they were the supposed shepherds of God's people. Child > Adult via puberty According to the natural process, a son of Adam is born and in order to be seen as useful and a glory to his father, in order to carry on his legacy and natural name, in order to do the work of his father which is to care for and feed himself and to do all he can to glorify himself via money, woman, accomplishment; he is driven to maturity and autonomy, separateness from God in order to accomplish his own work by the natural component of death. Fear controls the genetic chip in him that keeps pushing him to natural slavery as a full blown mature animal in order to be acceptable to Adam and "loved" by him collectively and personally by those brothers around him in the natural world who worship and serve the maturity of man. The more fully instinctively independent, the more subtle and clever in developing his intellect and knowledge of the world, the more ambitious and able he is to take and amass everything natural for himself. And the better he is at lying to himself by believing he is entitled and deserving (traits of Adam). Actually getting for himself (the proof of his power and glory to show others), the better he is at working only for himself the more he is naturally celebrated and worshipped as an independent man, recognized as "free." Alas though, despite all his cleverness and accumulation for himself, in fact because of it the fact that his father has abandoned him and he MUST care for and provided for himself at the expense of all that is True (God and his children)—all he will have in the end is separation from God which is death, being forever made one with the natural creation as he rots in the ground. That is the work of self-love and glory, the worship of what is passing, the worship and love for what is dead. The natural way, no matter how good a man is or what he accomplishes for himself or his brothers as a way of glorifying himself or what he achieves in his own name (his inheritance what he is left with as proof of sonship or value as a son of his father), as a son of Adam (the one who was cursed for preferring his own independent way) is always death, true separation and independence from God and His love and care as Father. The sons of God, those implanted with the Seed of Life, must go through an unseen, spiritual reversal (opposing what is seen and valued by the animal) of the natural process of maturity. They must go from fully mature, wild, independent, self serving, predatory animals who are driven to feed themselves; into "lambs" of God, those likened to small children that belong solely to God (appearing to be abandoned and alone—exactly what the sons of Adam truly are) opposing everything the mature, natural animal is. God's little lambs, His own children learn (and they must learn and suffer by denying their natural father and instinct of self-love, having reached natural maturity as sons of Adam) as men in the world, to become those who follow the unseen as they willingly offer the animal that is them as a sacrifice to die. Feeding God and not the self, he must learn to oppose the very thing that defines him, fear and living to save and shelter their own life. God's children, His own lamb's, learn to become utterly dependent on Him. Giving up trust in Adam, what they can see and touch and taste (which is the proof of their value and evidence that they are alive and not dead), they become vulnerable and truthful, able to be victimized in the natural world and in thus, allowing God their father to be their protection and to take care of them. That's the thing Adam can never do for his children who must reject God in favor of caring for themselves. The sons of God are lamb's/children who NEED to be sheltered and hidden, to be loved and provided for by God, clinging to Him as Life and identity. God's little children are those who in the world are literally dead without God, those who are nothing and have no name or claim or glory. They willingly achieve nothing. They are not those who are separated by fear, death and their own independence—not trusting God but rather their own flesh, direction and love. Rather the children of God are one with Him, those who have been born from above, not from below of the earth & Adam but of God and heaven, of His will and not the will and desire of man. God's children are those who follow Him and are carried and nurtured by Him to spiritual maturity which is, unlike natural maturity, completely individually powerless. God the Father feeds His children His truth; they cannot eat death/lies of Adam. The children of God are made separate from Adam; they must betray and deny their natural father. God's children look to Him the Unseen, to reflect Him. By His Seed in them He lives in them and teaches them, speaking and waters them to nourishment, growth and Life. For them in opposition to the natural world that all can see and judge, the work of God in raising His own children in private is an interior work far beyond and contrary to what man the animal values for himself and is able to consume or take to glorify himself. it is an inside job, precious and Holy. The true and lasting work of God's eternal love in raising up for Himself His own, born of His own Body, family. God's children mirror Him just as the sons of Adam mirror their father. God's children desire nothing more that to be like Him and to be near to Him, to be eternally associated with Him—to do His work, to be held and loved by Him. In the end, because they have been born of God and changed from wild animal to sweet, approachable, powerless, vulnerable lambs of God defined not by fear and death but rather by the love of God for them as Father, they CAN be loved by God and He can see Himself in them recognizing them as part of Him. They are no longer venomous serpents/hissing and biting wild, untamable, independent animals who have absolutely no desire or need for God but prefer the lie of self rule and ownership and the "freedom" of being a slave to instinct and self gratification/love. They hate God and all that he represents in being Father. They are "mature" men who have no need of a father to care for them. They despise and are filled with shame at the very thought, unable to offer themselves to another as a humble, vulnerable child. The curse of death/fear for their own lives as the orphans of Adam keeps them from it, from God and His love as father and Savior. God's precious lambs are for Him a home, His family, those who have willingly offered Him the animal in order to be known as His child. God's children are loved and defined by love in all their ways. He is eternally with them, living in them and watching over them as His own Body as those who's "proof" is in the Unseen, true Life, the Love of God, which is the inheritance of those who are born of The Father of the Living, those who in the end, remain with God and not those who carry on the curse of Adam and his dying, independent body. God's truth God's Truth is that He is, above all else, a Father to His children. Those children born of God and embodying the spirit of Love in Jesus (the "genetic" spiritual link implanted in the sons of God connecting them to God as His own Body) are those who God can recognize as His own, eternal sons. They are those who, being born of Jesus, have come from Him, created in His own image, reflecting His Glory as obedient sons, the very thing Adam chose not to do, choosing the lie instead and leaving God as unseen and unloved. The sons born of God are those who know the truth of God as father and have denied the paternity of Adam and his family of those bound by death and fear. Christadelphians What they fail to comprehend is that God is not for the humans, does not love the humans generally, and is not fair and democratic—that all comes from the culture of the humans who happen to be prevailing at the time. They don't understand that it is God that chooses His sons. That choice is the very paternity of God, the place where His real, most personal power/identity, the real truth about Him, lies, His Love as Father. It is the place, the power, the Divine Choice that transforms a man and without that Love of God as personal father, which is the Power that defines Him as "Father", this is the living proof that a man does know God. The knowledge that it is God alone who gives birth to His sons. Without understanding this, that God is the Father, there is no real knowledge of who God truly is. Transformation There is nothing in the natural, no money, or status, or beauty or power or righteousness or good works or birthright that can initiate or effect this Transformation from son of Adam/death to Living son of God. Truly the Spirit gives Life and the flesh counts for nothing. Man can do nothing, either for good or for evil, God is The Father and Creator of His sons. For His sons, those who are born of Him and transformed by Him, He alone is Love and Power and Life. Family For God, His own children as typed by the firstborn Son are the first and the last, the beginning and the end. God as Father is the eternal Truth of God and is what will remain as His children are the very reflection and proof of His eternal paternity, in them, He truly is "all in all," forever and ever a good Father. He remains in them and they in Him as One body, One family, undivided by the obstacle of the self and the flesh that must separate and tear apart, kill all that is One by its rigidity and instinct to glorify and worship the self and, in this, despise and dismiss God and His care and love as Father. The family of God are those who surround God with His own Light and image, those who reflect His Truth as the only father and as obedient sons willingly do His work despite what is costs the flesh of Adam. Jesus was and is for God the Father the perfect living preview of all those sons that would be born of Jesus love and obedience, having been chosen by God the father, Jesus, in his faithful body carried them Life, to God so that they could in him and his faithful offering as Son of God, know God as Father and be known by God as sons and heirs to eternal life. God has known His sons from the beginning but it was the willingness of Jesus to faithfully offer himself as the servant, the woman, the womb that brought the children of God to life and deposited in them the seed of life that came to be when Jesus went to the Father and became One with Him, thereby enabling a new spirit of life to be sent to break the curse of Adam/death over the family of God. This new agreement, this new marriage between Father and Son produced a spirit of comfort and sonship for the children which is the Living agreement of God and His Son. By the perfect sinless obedience of Jesus all those chosen by God are free via the spirit of Sonship given to them as chosen sons of God, will grow and mature to be like Jesus, One with God and in perfect agreement with Him, His eternal sons born of Jesus and his perfect sonship given out of love for God as Father. These are those Born of God and implanted via Jesus with His seed (the deposit of eternal DNA) insuring that they are His and not sons of the liar. The family of God are those who have been chosen and who in turn choose to follow Him and learn from Him, the unseen Father, those who have believed God and His intangible love that grows to the reward of eternal life rather than to follow Adam and from him receive the tangible inheritance of death, the fruit of the false tree and false love that natural family is basedon.The family of God are those taken from the fading world to be born again of an eternal Father, into a new family where there is only One eternal body rather than two bodies—man and woman—which represent the division/separation of all that is natural and opposed to its self via the curse of death that divides everything born of it. In the natural there is no life. God has known His sons from the beginning but it was the willingness of Jesus to faithfully offer himself as the servant, the woman, the womb that brought the children of God to Life and deposited in them the seed of life that came to be when Jesus went to the Father and became One with Him, thereby enabling a new spirit of life to be sent to break the curse of Adam/death over the family of God. This new agreement, this new marriage between Father and Son produced a spirit of comfort & sonship for the children, that is the Living agreement of God and His Son that by the perfect sinless/obedience of Jesus all those chosen by God are free via the spirit of sonship given to them as chosen sons of God, will grow and mature to be like Jesus, One with God and in perfect agreement with Him, His eternal sons born of Jesus and his perfect sonship given out of love for God as Father. These are those Born of God and implanted via Jesus with His seed (the deposit of eternal DNA) insuring that they are His and not sons of the liar. The family of God are those who have been chosen and who in turn choose to follow Him and learn from Him, the unseen father, those who have believed God and His intangible love that grows to the reward of eternal life rather than to follow Adam and from him receive the tangible inheritance of death, the fruit of the false tree and false love that natural family is based on. The family of God are those taken from the fading world to be born again of an eternal Father, into a New family where there is only One eternal Body rather than two bodies, man and woman, which represent the division/separation of all that is natural and opposed to its self via the curse of death that divides everything born of it. In the natural there is no agreement because there is nothing that can reflect God and remain. The new Body, the New Family who's name is eternal is One, undivided Body born of God, with many parts that work as One, never able to be separated, single minded and of One according, embodying One Truth: God is Father of the True Family, the only One that remains, the Family born of Love. Brotherly Love The reality of real love is simply the death of instinct which is the anti-love of the animal (suffering is nothing to celebrate and make it falsely alluring) but that process IS the freedom to actually love with no outward celebration or outward way to glorify the self...it is about the freedom to leave the animal self for dead and do the true work of God in caring for His body/children on the earth. We are stewards, as it were, for the children of God just as Jesus was until the new house is finished and we can all move in together. Real love is the great anti-love because it is against all the seen and tasted and touched love, it is hidden and quiet and veiled and to the flesh it is powerless, with glitz and shine but yet it is the very power ironically that raised Jesus the animal from the dead and proclaimed him the eternal Son of God. Real Love is the freedom, the confidence, the substance that causes the flesh to let go of itself in favor of holding on to, of sheltering and feeding and saving one of those born of God. The God given freedom that causes a man to leave the flesh behind. with all it's lies and outward trumped up celebration for a lasting, quiet, stable home with God and those He loves and who love Him. This is all about why the journey of animal to son is so different that we assume at first, because it's so hidden from what we're willing to accept at first. We have to be trained according to the new way before we can. The love of man is all about making something more than it is and then when you get it, it eventually loses it false luster and another shiny thing with lust dripping off it arises to continue the lie of trying to find what will satisfy. The process of becoming a son, of real love is the opposite of that. In the beginning it seems like nothing gratifying and the middle is pain and suffering but the end is (as Paul said) more than any mind could conceive or know or imagine. A sort of reversal of the way the flesh works. With true love there is no instant gratification and the let down of it, which is the lie of flesh love (it dies), the reward is the end of the slavery to false self love/god, in the ability to remain (selfless) like God so that we can be a part of Another, The Light and not hiding underground in an attempt to cover our shame of self worship and adoration (slavery to the self).
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